[ale] xargs w/ tr

[Fletch]

>>>>> "David" == David S Jackson <dsj at sylvester.dsj.net> writes:

[...]

    David> Like using xargs to set variable names, something like

    David> whatever|xargs -J % name=% newname=`echo $name|tr A-Z a-z`


        That's still not going to work because the backtics will be
expanded before xargs ever sees them.


... | rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/'


#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# rename - Larry's filename fixer
$op = shift or die "Usage: rename expr [files]\n";
chomp(@ARGV = <STDIN>) unless @ARGV;
for (@ARGV) {
    $was = $_;
    eval $op;
    die $@ if $@;
    rename($was,$_) unless $was eq $_;
}


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